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- The following editorial comes from the Desert Dispatch of Barstow, Calif., the Star’s sister paper and part of the Freedom group:President Barack Obama recently signed into law legislation... Full story
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- Editorial: Hope for sanity in cocaine sentencing
- The following editorial comes from The Orange County Register, the Star’s sister paper and the flagship of the Freedom group:Now that the Senate’s second-ranking Democrat has introduced a bill to end the unjustified and counterproductive... Full story
- Community Forum: Salute for the concerned citizens
- To the editor:In a recent letter by Walt Kittelberger he talks of letters “submitted to newspapers all over America by people who are suddenly concerned by the direction the Country has taken. These people have grown worried about a whole host... Full story
- Another View: Economic myths and irrelevancy
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- Steve H. Hanke is a Professor of Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., and writes frequently for Globe Asia and Forbes magazine. Professor Hanke starts off his... Full story

- Editorial: Global action on warming fizzling
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The following editorial appeared inThe Orange County Register flagship of the Freedom group, the Star’s sister paper and
flagship of the Freedom group
The world can breathe a sigh of... Full story
- Community Forum: Times are changing for ranchers
- To the editor:Recently, the paper had an article about a local cattle raiser complaining that the City of Harlingen would not remove the carcass of his dead cow.Back in my livestock raising days, when an animal died, one usually disposed of the... Full story

- Editorial: Value protection
- Constitutional amendments would help property owners
- As expected, turnout so far has been light in early voting for the 11 proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution. That is unfortunate, because more than half of the proposals would directly affect homeowners’ property tax bills. Live voting... Full story
- Community Forum: No difference in types of murder
- To the editor:According to a police spokesman, the teenager who is accused of beating his one-month-old son to death is charged with capital murder because the victim was under the age of 6.On the contrary, an abortion doctor can legally murder a... Full story

- Problems at new police department
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I was elated to see the new Harlingen Police Department’s new building. I went inside and asked the receptionist (a police officer) and inquired about fingerprinting services. She called somebody from the phone and then told me... Full story

- Supreme sacrifice
- As we mourn another loss in Iraq, pledge to make peace their legacy
- The Rio Grande Valley once again mourns the loss of one of our own to the hell that is war. Alton native Bradley Espinoza was killed Oct. 19 when an explosive hit his vehicle at Qayyarah West, Iraq — the military calls it Q-West. He was in his... Full story

- Editorial: Pressure in Afghanistan
- It took heavy pressure — from Secretary of state Hillary Clinton, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner, as well as four straight days of intensive discussions with Massachusetts Sen. (and head of the... Full story